TORRENT TITLE

Snakefinger - 1985-xx-xx West End, Chicago, IL

ARTIST NAME

Snakefinger

BOOTLEG TITLE

N/A

VENUE, CITY, COUNTRY, DATE

West End, Chicago, IL 1985-xx-xx

TRACK LISTING

DISC 1 (68:16)

01 WARM UP..................................(1:20)
02 Eric's Intro (Busy Signal)...............(1:43)
03 Save Me From Dali (Art Gallery Spiel)....(1:37)
04 Smelly Tongues...........................(2:25)
05 Living In Vain...........................(3:28)
06 Magic And Ecstasy........................(2:28)
07 Beatnik Party............................(6:28)
08 Shining Faces ('I Am Nino')..............(2:34)
09 Speak To Me Ulysses......................(3:45)
10 Here Comes The Bums (CUT)................(2:34)
11 The Model................................(3:50)
12 Jinx.....................................(4:30)
13 There's No Justice In Life...............(3:39)
14 I Gave Myself To You.....................(6:32)
15 Trashing All The Loves Of History........(4:42)
ENCORE 1
16 The Stumble (CUT)........................(2:48)
17 Eva's Warning (CUT)......................(5:28)
ENCORE 2
18 Kill The Great Raven.....................(2:47)
19 I Love You Too Much To Respect You.......(5:28)

LINE UP

Snakefinger - guitar, sing
Miguel Bertel - guitar, sing
Eric Drew Feldman - keyboards, synthesizers
George G. George OR Ben Guy - bass, sing
John "BongHit" Ryan - drums
Baby Meinhof - sound


ARTWORK

N/A

SOURCE / LINEAGE

Stereo SBD trade tape (low gen)

Trade tape > Computer WAV > Cool Edit Pro > TLH v2.4.1 > FLAC 8 > DIME > you
Big thanks to Miguel Bertel, who let this soundboard out of his collection, and to the trader (paperhead) who hooked me up with a copy.
I originally mastered this back in 2001, but I'd done NR on it & was never super happy with it.
This is a fresh remaster done 2009-11-20 with no NR; a bit more hiss, but more detail too.
The only thing I did on the computer this time was place track marks before each piece.

NOTES

So the trader befriended Miguel Bertel & he dug up a few goodies and traded them to him, this among them.
In theory MB's copy was ? 1st gen from the source / the trader's was 2nd gen / this is 3rd gen, or thereabouts.

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I don't know the date of this show, that was not provided when I got my copy.
We do know it's at least the second of two nights.
Snakey says "last night was precision" / "tonight is art (mainly bullshit)".

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Snakefinger typically named his band & would often change it up from night to night.
For this show he didn't say a name.
He also didn't do the usual intro of his band members; don't know if Ben Guy was in the band by now or not.

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There's what sounds like a tape munch cut in the middle of Bums (maybe a pause?).
There's another one of those at the end of The Stumble, which goes right into the start of Eva's.
And there are some spots where the source tape was surely wrinkled; ya hear the quality briefly fade b4 returning.

There are a few other harmless edits / gaps here & there on the source, mostly during crowd clap segments.
Some of these silence gaps were a few seconds long & I cut them down to almost nothing.

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Many Snakefinger live show tapes aren't the greatest sound quality; this is one of those that really does sound fine.
These 1984-1985 shows after the History Of The Blues tour show Snakefinger trying out new material.
This one's a hodgepodge:
* classic old tracks
* a taste of the new (I Gave Myself To You, fresh out as a single, and There's No Justice In Life)
* an unreleased tune (Speak To Me Ulysses) that to this point I've only heard in this show
* a cover of Tuxedomoon's song Jinx
* and a number from the Blues tour to boot
Killer stuff here.
< If anyone else has more of these 1984-1985 shows tucked away, please consider pulling them out & sharing 'em! >
< Most of them have had a golden nugget like this, and I'd love to know if there's more we haven't heard.>

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Crank it up and ENJOY! it as I have, and share it so others can hear it.

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Filenames have numbers on the end that are the TIMES (ex. - "...-359" is 3min59sec long).

I mark the start of tracks when the music or count-in begins, not the talking about it before it starts.

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The usual schmack applies here:

Please don't post this anywhere but DIME.
Please retain this original info file data with any reseedings.
Please don't transfer to MP3 or other lossy formats.
Please only trade this with others, don't sell it.
Please support the artists involved by purchasing their official product in massive quantities.